Commercial package for cigars.



PATBNTED APR. 5, 1904.

C. P. KRATOVILLE. COMMERCIAL PACKAGE FOR CIGARS.

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Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES P. KRATOVILLE, OF RIVERHEAD, NEW YORK.

COMMERCIAL PACKAGE FOR CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '7 56,656, dated April 5, 1904.

Application filed November 21,1902. Serial No. 132,845. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (JHARLEs P KRATovILLn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverhead, county of Suffolk, State of New York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Commercial Packages for Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved group package of suitable pocket size especially protecting the exposed end of the cigar from breakage and loss of flavor, while any member of the package can be readily removed without destroying the protection of its neighbors in the same group, thus suiting the needs of the user and consumer in a high degree.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a two-part wrapper-paper cut, but unfolded. Fig. 2 shows a three-part form in the flat. Fig. 3 also represents one cut for a four-part wrapper. Fig. 4 shows the central patch of waterproofing, such as tin-foil, adapted to be placed at the joined or hinged part of the wrappers, as hereinafter stated. Fig. 5 shows side of two-part Wrapper formed up and pasted. Fig. 6 shows a four-part wrapper ready for the insertion of the cigars. Fig.7 represents a two-part wrapper completed with cigars in place and partly folded and ready to be bound together by the tie G. Fig. 8 is the same fully folded and protected and bound by the tucking of the tie about the package, as will be hereinafter de scribed more fully.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

I am aware that partitioned boxes and plural sheaths have been patented before in the efiort to save the aroma of the tobacco from deterioration. The forms shown heretofore permitted partial ventilation, or the wrappers must be broken when the first cigar of the package is removed.

In carrying out my invention 1 have provided for a positive pinching or compressing eifect at the open end of the cigar in the act of folding up the radial members composing the group. This pinching effect is of exceeding value in firming the filler, pressing the tinfoil hard against the open part of the cigar,

parts B to encircle the bodies of the cigars,

with suflicient lap for pasting or otherwise joining same, as at dotted lines of Fig. 6. The length of the sheaths thus formed may be of such proportion as will cover that part of the cigar which is expected to be consumed. In the cutting the centers of the blanks at A, Fig. 1, and A, Fig. 6, are left solid to form the hinge or clamping ligament, as before noted. Whether two or three or four or five sheaths are formed about this center is immaterial, the principle being the same. Separate sheaths tied together by their ends being in connection and adapted to fold oppositely against each other are desired in order to produce the peculiar effect which my invention embodles, agentle pinching and preserving pressure wholly attributable to the action of the tightening-hinge as the cigars D D are brought together. Once packed by this method it is found that no ordinary exposure will afi'ect the filler; It is neither subjected to crumbling nor evaporation.

When it is desired to provide specially against dampness, I place the caps of tin-foil F in the central hinge-spaces, these caps of foil or paraflined fabric are also in the act of folding compressed and formed about the closed-in ends of the cigars in a way to permanently prevent ventilation and loss of the aroma of the tobacco.

As a reliable holding device to prevent unloosening of the package, I provide the ribbon or strap C, Fig. 7 and Fig. 8. his to be wrapped about the aggregate package, having one end pasted to the sheath and the free end being drawn in between the bodies of the cigars D, the friction being found sufficient to hold the band, there being no knot tying, and a simple lifting of the end releases any one of the cigars from the package at any time.

It is known that pockets or pouches for the carrying of cigars have been used before and that such closed-end constructions having one mouth have been variously hinged together; but my invention requires in all its forms that the tubes for holding the cigars be fully open at the hinge end and be fully open at the end most distant from the hinge, making two months, one for entry and one for withdrawal of the cigars. My invention requires, fur.- ther, in all of its forms that the tubes, each with two mouths, be disposed radially with reference to the common hinge part or center.

In all of the older constructions of hinged pockets and pouches for cigars having one -mouth and differently hinged the filling of the pockets is accomplished from without by .Into this inner mouth the cigar is now inserted, strong end, sealed end, taper end foremost after the manner of a needle. all of the tubes have been filled, the package is radially folded, with the cut ends of the cigars positively compressed and held firm and tightly protected by the pinching action of the connecting-hinge, as said hinge actively seizes 1 upon the raw ends of the lncluded cigars 1n the 3 5 very act of folding. The older constructions do not exhibit this tight closure of the cut ends of the cigars; neither do they show the economy of material and labor in the making of the same from the integral flat sheet of wrapping stuff. The old plan requires a much more loosely fitting sheath and is measurably less protecting than the tubes and hinging ends here shown. I desire also. to specify that I am not limited or restricted in the exact measurements or comparative sizes of the said hinged tubes or sheaths, as it is found perfectly practical to insert the sharp ends of two small cigars into one larger tube or tightly-fitting double sheath and to fold the hinged and opposite member of the group containing one cigar intothe central valley between the first two cigars, thus. making a group of three in two slightly unequal tubes hinged radially and oppositely as has been described. This construction is a mere variation in size, not in principle, of the centrally-hinged integral and double-mouth tubes.

- Having described my invention, what I When claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a cigar-package, a plurality of flexible retaining-tubes of suitable size, disposed radially and hinged to a common center, entrances for the cigars at the hinged end of said tubes, and exit-openings at the outer ends of said tubes for the withdrawal of the cigars, a central hinge acting upon the cut end of the incl'uded .cigars as a means to compress and protect the filler by the natural tightening of the hinge, substantially as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a substantially integral sheet of suitable material cut into a group of radially-connected body parts B, and pasted into tube form while end-hinged to the centralpart A, each tube having an open mouth at the hinged end, and an open mouth at the free end, for cigar-packing purposes, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a plurality of endhinged cigar tubes integrally constructed from the flat sheet, and having radial arrangement about a common central hinge, both tube ends being open, witha patch of separate protecting material superimposed upon said center for the purpose of enwrapping and protecting the cut ends of the cigars when the group of tubes is filled and folded, substantially as specified.

4. In a cigar-package, a group of flexible receiving-tubes, end-hinged, and integrally constructed from a fiat sheet, arranged radially about a common center each tube having two mouths, one inner relative tothe hinge and one outer relative to the package, the said group having an attached ribbon string or binding means, for the purpose of retaining the group in its folded position, substantially as set forth.

5. A cigar-package comprising a plurality of end-hinged receiving-tubes pasted and formed from the flat sheet of paper orother suitable material, a central hinge part connected with and substantially integral with said tubes, mouths at the inner ends of the tubes for entrance of the cigars, and mouths at the free ends of the tubes for the withdrawal ofthe same, a waterproof means placed centrally with reference to the cut ends of the included cigars, a cord or retaining means havlng one end connected to the group of tubes, all in the manner substantially as set forth and described.

C. P. KRATOVILLE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE F. STAoKroLE, MARY H. STAoKroLE.

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